{"id":380569,"date":"2026-07-21T05:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:13:07","slug":"as-many-as-3-dogs-found-dead-in-car-in-downtown-san-antonio-parking-lot-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380569\/","title":{"rendered":"As many as 3 dogs found dead in car in downtown San Antonio parking lot, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 As many as three dogs were found dead inside a car in a downtown public parking lot, San Antonio officials say.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Animal Care Services and the San Antonio Police Department were called to the 100 block of West Nueva for a strong odor coming from a car in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Once on scene, officers found &#8220;heavily decomposed animal remains&#8221; inside the car. Officials say &#8220;up to three deceased&#8221; dogs were found.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The number and identities of the animals and their cause of death is yet to be determined pending a veterinary examination and a necropsy. Preliminary evidence suggests that the dogs likely died from heat exposure, however this has not been confirmed yet.<\/p>\n<p>ACS and SAPD are reviewing more evidence in the car and are working to identify the person or people responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;City ordinance prohibits leaving an animal in a standing or parked vehicle in any manner that endangers the animal\u2019s health or safety,&#8221; ACS said in a news release. &#8220;Enhanced charges under the state animal-cruelty law are under review.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 As many as three dogs were found dead inside a car in a downtown public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-380569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}